The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.


Vikram Seth

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Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY
History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY
I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY
In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has d...
SETH BERKLEY
I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, i...
SETH BERKLEY
We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY
Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3...
SETH BERKLEY
Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are ...
SETH BERKLEY
When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected m...
SETH BERKLEY
Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our pro...
SETH BERKLEY
The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates fur...
SETH BERKLEY
You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens...
SETH BERKLEY
New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically imp...
SETH BERKLEY
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to th...
SETH BERKLEY
The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes fro...
SETH BERKLEY
Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body t...
SETH BERKLEY
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
SETH BERKLEY
In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rura...
SETH SHOSTAK
Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified ...
SETH SHOSTAK
Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed ...
SETH SHOSTAK
I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing...
SETH ROLLINS
I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cr...
SETH MACFARLANE
My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve...
SETH MEYERS
By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean t...
SETH SHOSTAK
These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the...
SETH LOW
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not ...
SETH SHOSTAK
We're pushing the limits of what a game is, and they think I'm beyond this limit. There will...
SETH PRIEBATSCH
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the sa...
SETH GODIN
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surpris...
SETH SHOSTAK
When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greate...
SETH MEYERS
The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the come...
SETH MEYERS
Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
SETH GODIN
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The O...
SETH MACFARLANE
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize ce...
SETH SHOSTAK
People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.
SETH ROGEN
Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapi...
SETH SHOSTAK
Please, please be very, very diligent in what you do. Your actions could affect more than just yours...
BENNIE SETH
If you live in a county where they do allow you to do outdoor burning and you know you have a lot of...
BENNIE SETH
They're expecting and predicting a very dry early summer, so we need to begin thinking about how we'...
BENNIE SETH